[Maverick Hunter Zero]

It was not everyday that your avarage personification of the Fear of Dying came to the stadium, especially since thefact remained that he hadn't had a chance to strut his stuff when it came to no-shows that never stayed for very long, which frustrated the epitaph to no end.

So he was to be seen in the arena again today, though in a particularly foul temperment and possibly very violent, those who were in the stadium seats were indeed calm, they were terrified by the mere presence of Skeith that they were slightly cowering, slightly wetting themselves.  Those who were not afraid of this unnatural abberation of the Grim Reaper knew full well the power he inspired, and went to great lengths to keep to the front of the stands as much as possible.

A note  in the form of a Data Crystal had been placed on the tagboard, the note was a challenge which read:

"Do you have the courage to face a 'True Reaper' in the field of battle, if so; arrive immediately and be prompt...  For The Terror of Death awaits you within!"

Skeith simply waited within the arena, the aura eminating from this being showing that he was clearly in a dangerous state that even other Reapers couldn't comprehend, even more to a fault since he was waiting for his opponent and the referee.

[Coolshaymin]

Black Mage was walking by the stadium in his normal attitude. He felt the urge to kill something but the trophy thing kind of kills the  joy and there was no one in a place he could keep it secret. He stopped when he noticed some where gem on the board.

Taking it off and reading it for a few seconds, Black Mage was quick to upset. "True reaper? Terror of Death?! What makes this guy think HE deserves these titles! If anything, people should fear me for the principle of dying!... I think I need to put this guy in his place," Black Mage said.

And so he walked in and stared into Skeith's soul with his yellow glowing eyes... if the rock had a soul. "You? True Reaper? HAHAHAHAHA! You look more like a pile of rocks! This may be easier than I thought," Black Mage said looking at the strange collection of 'rocks'.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The crowd was indeed very intense, the duo that entered the ring being two figures to fear rather than two friendly faces in a fun competition. The ones that stuck around to watch were there mostly for morbid curiosity than for the thrill of the fight. It was kind of like the difference between an audience that enjoyed fun action movies and dark horror films. Though as the two met in the stadium, a certain funky monkey came swinging in, landing in between the two of them.

“Whoa, keep it calm blue dude. The Sunshine Stadium is no place for those kinds of insults. Bullying isn’t cool, brodda!” The ape began to dig around his back pocket and pulled out an anti-bullying pamphlet and handed it over to Black Mage. “If there’s anything I know about dudes that enjoy bullying, it is that they have some twisted and freaky personal lives, I will be the first to tell you that you can open up to your good friend Funky Kong!”

The cool monkey returned to the center of the ring and then snapped his fingers. “Now, before Surge manages to escape, let’s get this show on the road!” With that, a mysterious wheel grew out of the ground, and as soon as it was fully above the ground, Funky Kong gave it a good spin, pounding his chest as it rapidly turned until it finally stopped at ‘Pokemon Battle.’ The ape began to hop up and down, making the ordinary gorilla grunts.

“Ooo, you two are luckier than a banana in a coconut tree! Chill for a moment while I get it set up!” the monkey stated as he pulled some sort of remote from his back side once more. It had a singular red button, which he mashed down on almost as soon as it was in the palm of his hand. Quickly, a large wall split the stadium into two halves, the strong man posing monkey sitting atop of it. “Now, let me inside your brains for a moment while I fill them with some of my knowledgeable goodness. This cool kong is gonna give each of you four Pokeballs and a Masterball, use whichever one you want and as many as you want, but beware because your balls be limited, man! Using them all at once might give you some problems. You can’t attack your opponent directly, you must use the Pokeball if you want to dish some damage out! Otherwise, the other rules are still in place, so good luck with your match bros!” With that, the ape ran out of sight.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

What Black Mage did not know was that skeith HAD no soul, he was an entity who thrived off of the fear of others and Black Mages malice was lost on deaf ears. {... .... .... ...... ..... .. .., ....... .... ... .... ...... .. .. ......
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{Translation}:"Who does this mortal think he is, looking into the dark depths of MY being.
You lack the right to be called a killer, for you do not have the ability to place your victims into a permanent comatose state.
Word of advice, take up Necromancy." Skeith thought as the ref bounded into the stadium and berated the black Magician man for bullying, luckily Skeith kept his thoughts to himself as he kept his eyeless sockets on the ref, who then spun a wheel which landed on POKEMON BATTLE!

Skeith grabbed his four Poke Balls and Master Ball after hearing the rules of this match, then gave a solid but completely audible nod to let the referee know he heard the rules, shifting his form to that of his G.U. Avatar form{the form seen in Vol. 3 of .Hack//G.U. to be more precise} and stabbed his Red Wand into the Nintendium Floor, cracking it from the force of the stab.

Then almost immediately as soon as the Funkster Referee hightailed it out of the arena and into the stands threw out the first of his five balls, throwing it in between himself and Black Mage, The pokemon that came out was none other than Gogoat, who then proceeded to attack Black Mage with a Bum Rush, with Skeith riding on the Gogoats back as though he were a professional surfer!

Gogoat ATTACKS:STR ROLL: 2IjmFsLbp_1d20{Above Avarage Attack for Gogoat!}

(GW: Roll 15 Dex to dodge Gogoat)1d20

[Coolshaymin]

(Roll was 15 on Brock jones)

Black Mage gave a glare at the ref for lecturing him on bullying. If this pile of rocks could talk it would probably be doing it too. How would he even know if it had emotion. He was a target to remember but now was not the time for killing innocent goody two shoes.

Black Mage watched the chimp hand them some balls before stating their purpose. Black Mage gave a sigh that he could not use his magic but to show this guy up, he had to follow the rules. Black Mage considered the order to throw the balls as his opponent already threw one. Deciding on his course of action, Black Mage noticed the ram and jumped on top of it.

Deciding to use the ram as a platform to make him harder to hit, Black Mage pulled out a red Pokeball and tossed it at the skeletal rock formation. Out of the ball came another rock of some kind. Of course, it looked like a combined twin with that other rock. "Okay... Weezing, right? Poison Cloud... or whatever that thing you do is called," Black Mage said and the Weezing obliged by spewing it's gas on the enemy.

(Attack Roll=13)

(GW: Roll 14 Dex to dodge Weezing)

[Mr. Game & Watch]

“… They are really running us rampant lately. I thought we had back up commentators?”

“AH HA HA HA! Don’t be ridiculous Big Top! We live to do this day in and day out! I mean, we get the best seats in the house and we get to entertain and inform our lovely audience! There’s no topping this, Big Top!”

“…You just say that because you have nothing better to do with your time.”

“Nonsense! I have a very busy schedule, but when it comes to Sunshine Stadium matches I always have to make room!”

“…Yeah, real busy schedule. You basically live in this booth. No wait, not basically, you DO live in this booth.”

“Hogwash!”

“…Hey could you pass me a drink from the mini-fridge?”

“Sure thing. First you have to stop taking such long pauses before talking.”

“…No. Oh hey, is that Funky Kong down there?”

“That ape is getting nowhere near this booth this time around! I have placed a series of counter measures to prevent him from ruining this show!”

“You’re bluffing.”

“Am I though, Big Top? Do you think Funky Kong would be willing to take that risk?”

“Ten times out of ten I would say yes. Not because he is bold, but because he seems to share your IQ level…”

“I know! For a monkey wearing sunglasses he’s quite the crafty hoodlum!”

“Wow, we’ve went the entire first round without even mentioning the fighters, this must be a new record…”

“Ah yes! This is surprisingly unprofessional for the Master of Catastrophe that is Ballyhoo!”

“Is it really that surprising though?”

“In one corner we have our regular golem competitor Skeith! And facing him is the darkest magician in the land, Black Mage!”

“Don’t tell me you got one of the challengers’ name wrong again…”

“No, that is exactly what it says on my prompter, Black Mage. Gotta say though, his blue robes really break up the expectations of his name! I like it, gives a new twist on things! He’s a master of the dark arcane arts, but that doesn’t stop him from having a brightly coloured wardrobe!”

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

DEX ROLL: 15{the 'Giant Space Flea from Nowhere' avoids the Poison Gas}
Skeith managed to do a swift dodge, the feelings of fear and the Negative emotions that come with that package actually making it possible for the 1st Phase of Morganna to see the Black Mage attempt to harm him with a Wheezing, that alone was pathetic enough to make the squishy Wizard a bad example.

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"This Squishy fleshie needs to know who not to mess with..." Skeith thought, keeping in mind that this was a fight with P0kemon, not with Fisticuffs. He geabbed another Poke Ball and tossed it between himself and Black Mage, Uneashing the Ice/Grass Dual Type Pokemon; Abomasnow. Skeith decided to let it Wreak Havok on his opponent with A Blizard/Ice Punch combo

WIS ROLL: 16{Abomasnow Blizzard}
STR ROLL: 17{Abomasnow Ice PAWNCH!}

(GW: Roll 15 Dex to dodge Blizzard, roll 14 Dex for Ice Punch {Instant Freeze included if hit})

[Coolshaymin]

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Black Mage got caught off guard as the Gogoat whinnied and he suddenly got knock backed by a blizzard AND an Ice Punch right afterwards. "Two moves on one Pokémon?! Now that is just cheating," Black Mage complained in mind. He straightened up though he shivered a little from the frozen frostiness.

Black Mage shiveringly pulled out a red ball and threw it, hoping the power that was inside could help more than the meteor. Black Mage remembered something though. He could not attack his foe directly. There was no rule on using buffs on himself. Black Mage lifted his arms up as he grew fast with haste to cancel out the damage the freeze did. The Monkey said he could not attack his foe, he said nothing about buffing himself.

Now that he got that small loophole out of the way, it was time to strike back. Black Mage threw his ball and out came a... What was that thing? It said 'Oshawhat' so that must be it's name. "Oshawhat! Aqua Jet!" The Oshawott obliged by bellysliding at the foe while covered in water.

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"... Really? A 1?! Screw this! I am using another one! Go Master Ball!" Black Mage said. The Mage tossed the Ball and out came a Moltres that seemed to try and damage Skeith by touching him.

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(GW: Roll 6 Dex to dodge Oshawott, if hit roll 17 Dex to dodge Moltres, otherwise roll 16 Dex)

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[Mr. Game & Watch]

“WOAH! Legendary Bird on the field! Big Top! This match is really starting to ramp up!”

“I can tell because you’re actually paying attention to it this time around…”

“This time around!? Big Top, my level of focus and study of a battle is without rival! In fact, they should have me award the winner! Or should I say winners! I think no one should be left out of a prize! I mean, all the contestants battle so well and even if they don’t I just want to give them some Chump Charity!”

“Yes, I’m sure you would make the matches more intense…”

“Proving my point yet again, Big Top! I can see it now, Ballyhoo, the magnificent referee and commentator, I could do both jobs!”

“…I think Funky Kong beat you to the punch on that. In fact, I think Omochao did that too.”

“Ah Omochao, I remember when he was still around. It’s too bad he got recalled, I don’t remember him ever having some sort of crippling glitch, but I guess I’m no technical expert!”

“Yes… Let’s just hope they never figure that one out.”

“What was that, Big Top?”

“I said I hope he makes a full recovery, only so that he can explore Li and get infected in the process.”

“Ah yes, infected with a supreme sense of adventure! He used to tell me that he loved exploring the badlands of Li! Poker Nights will never be the same…”

“Yeah, because everyone loves to lose to the stupid cheating bot…”

“He’s the only one that kept Funky Kong in line! Every time he gets a good hand he throws his cards on the table and yells Black Jack! You know how upset Surge gets when Funky Kong does that!”

“Just get a new player…”

“There are only so many people that work in the Sunshine Stadium!”

“Isn’t there usually a new ref and new commentator in every other match?”

“It’s just not the same…”

“Yes, where else can we find a military robot that works for the Life Sphere, speaks in stilted English, and will threaten to arrest us every chance they get…”

“I’m calling A.I.M. to see if he’s up for Poker Night!”

“…A.I.M. decided on a gender to be referred to?”

“What? I just assumed he was a he?! I mean he’s always so… Um actually I can’t think of a trait that would make him seem one way or the other!”

“…Stereotypes fail us yet again.”

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

DEX ROLL A: 9{Oshawhiff}
DEX ROLL B: 16{TOO BAD!}

Skeith simply stood there, its gaze scaring the Oshawott the moment it tried to make contact with the epitaph, the Moltres couldn't even faze this Immortal Monster and both vanished after doing their shpiel.

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"I don't think you know what you are up against here." Skeith thought in his mind, laughing off the futile efforts of the Black Mage as he used a buff on himself, but doing so was probably a rule breaker in Skeith's book, a rule the referee perhaps forgotten to add, but Skeith didn't care and put it to the back of his mind, simply because he felt like it.

Skeith couldn't care Less about wanting to burn through all of his pokemon, mainly because his opponent wasted a perfectly good master ball which was going to be a last resort. Skeith delved into his Pokeballs and decided that fair is fair, since the Squishy Wizard used two, Skeith would do the same. He tossed out the first one and out popped a pokemon that looked like it was a Scyther Trade Evolution, going by the name of scizor. who promptly decided to give Black Mages hat the shearing of its tife with its metal Claw attack!
STR ROLL: 19{Damn near critical Metal Claw to Black Mages Hat!}

Skeith then threw out his 4th and final Pokeball, and out came the Pokemon that Black Mage had used on him in the first round! This Weezing decided to turn the tables on Black Mage with its Smog Attack!
STR ROLL: 18{Brutal Smog in Black Mages FACE!}

(GW: Using Haste isn't cheating as Coolio stated in his previous post since the rule was that you cannot attack your opponent directly. You can use your attacks all you want, so long as you don't use them on Black Mage himself, and vice versa for Black Mage. Roll 16 Dex to dodge metal claw. Roll 15 to dodge smog)

[Coolshaymin]

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Black Mage grabbed his hat as he was shredded by the claws and sent back from the might of the mighty iron Beetle of aggressiveness. Black Mage steadily got up and looked up to notice his hat was ripped. That was his favorite hat! This guy was going to pay for destroying Black Mage's pride and joy in fashion. However, the distraction from the hat made him caught offguard as Skeith copied the exact strategy that Black mage just used... Except with more luck.

Black Mage coughed at the gas released in his face from the noxious meteorite. Having enough of the ball in his face, he jumped back and blew up the weezing with a fireball in it's smoke. Releasing his aggression at the smoke spewing Weezing, Black Mage glared at the stones.

"I know what I am dealing with. A collection of pebbles with more pride than they are worthy of. Now, let's see my luck turn around!" Black Mage said, pulling out another Pokeball and tossing it. Out came a cute little bug in some kind of fuzzy stuff. Black Mage looked at the bug and gave a facepalm at it's cuteness. It seemed to do nothing but sit there by Skeith.

"..." Black Mage stared a bit longer before getting mad. "AHHHHHHH!" In rage, Black Mage shot the bug with a bolt of lightning that caused the bug to become scared. As a self defense mechanism, the bug released Stun Spore to try and Paralyze the Stone Reaper. "... Guess it just needed some violent encouragement..."


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The Powder was moderately dense, though not too dense.

(GW: Roll 13 Con to avoid paralysis, if paralysis is successful roll Con again to determine how many turns of Paralysis (3 turns if con roll is 20+, 8 turns if roll is 2-))
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[Mr. Game & Watch]

“This match is really becoming electrifying, wouldn’t you say Big Top!?”

“… Please, never use puns ever again.”

“Sorry Big Top, I forgot how shocked you get by them!”

“Seriously? That’s your A material? A fourth grader could come up with that one…”

“What’s a fourth grader?”

“…Never mind…”

“Say, Big Top! We’re having a Pokemon match and we’ve yet to discuss our favourite Pokemon! Surely you have a favourite!”

“Is there one that’s a hat?”

“Well, I don’t exactly know all of them, we hardly see any around anymore. I wonder why? Anyways, I’m sure there’s one that’s a hat or at least acts like a hat! My favourite is Garbodor!”

“That sounds oh so appealing…”

“He’s the underdog of the Pokemon universe! Who doesn’t love to root for the underdog!? I mean, its living garbage, isn’t that at least interesting, Big Top?!”

“Yeah, I bet you can relate to it…”

“We can all relate to Garbodor, Big Top! It shows us that even literal scum and dirt can lead a life! What a story, so poetic!”

“…Its just garbage…”

“But its living garbage! It has feelings like you or I!”

“…Maybe feelings like you, it’s still just garbage. Garbage is gross.”

“You gotta keep an open mind, Big Top!”

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

CON ROLL: 15{Skeith resists the urge to go herbal with Paralysis}

Black mage tried his best and there was clearly no telling what he was thinking, but had a very good buff of his own. But of course he decided AGAINST using the technique because he would only use it when he found himself in a bad situation in a fight where he would need to use it.

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"You suck! I had more fun when I was fighting Kite and Blackrose!" Skeith thought with mirthless laighter that sent chills up and down all present in the stands and even Black Mage himself could find no form of hint as to what the Terror of Death was getting at, especially since the big batch of independantly moving rocks was enjoying this bout.

without so much as a warning, the Aura around Skeith became so intense that the entire arena looked to be in a state of semi-darkness, and from that was thrown a Master Ball that hit the wall behind Black Mage to unleash Meloetta, who promptly used Round, sending spheres of musical noiseall around the arena, which then converged upon Black Mage like a reflected Meteor Spell in an attempt to punish the murderous mage with all they had!

STR ROLL: 18{Savage Round by Meloetta to dominate the Mage and end the match!}

(GW: Roll 16 Dex to dodge Round)

[Coolshaymin]

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Black Mage watched as yet another attack MISSED! This was really getting frustrating at this point. Then he saw some... dancer appear out of the next Pokeball. He just gave an odd look as a music not bounced past him. "... That's it? Ha, what a-" Black Mage began before he got smacked in the back by the rebound of the musical note.

Black Mage gave an angry growl at how annoying this fight was. Black Mage just kept getting hit and now his robes were all tattered and he was going to have to change for once. No one makes Black Mage change his clothes! Black Mage glared at his final Pokeball and looked back to Skeith. This was it, all or nothing.

 "I suck, huh? Then let's see how much this sucks wise guy!" Black Mage called out before throwing the ball at the rock titan and hoping in the name of Chaos this did not fail. And out came a MOTHER KILLING METAGROSS! FINALLY! GOOD LUCK! The Metal combination of other Pokemon slammed it's mighty feet into the ground to bury and shake up the Grim Pile of Rocks.

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"..." Black Mage face palmed at the low power of the Metagross.

(GW: Roll 6 Dex to dodge)
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[Mr. Game & Watch]

“Garbodor is easily the best Pokemon, Big Top! I’m not the kind of guy to go around picking favourites, but I can’t hold myself back on this one! That Pokemon is like a message to the world that one day we too will be able to befriend our waste and our pollution problems will go away.”

“… I just… I have never cared so little about a topic of conversation with you in my life.”

“And that’s why there will never be a President Big Top, you don’t care enough about the environment and garbage Pokemon.”

“When has caring about the environment ever interfered with politics?”

“Oooh, a little political humour there, I like it!”

“…I think they might’ve ran out of Pokeballs down there…”

“WHAT!? There’s still time on the clock! How did they run out of Pokeballs!?”

“I think they might’ve used two at the same time… Did you really expect they would only use one at a time throughout the entire match?”

“AH HA HA, I didn’t make the rules, Big Top! We still have a show that must go on! These people paid good coin to get in on this action and if we don’t give them what they came for our careers are over! We might even have a full out riot!”

“I don’t think people will care that much if we cut it short here…”

“We must honour our promises, Big Top!”

“Get that fear out of yer ears, Ballydude! I got the right cruising for this bruising!”

“Enough of your hokey pokey language you blathering baboon! We have a show to save!”

“Way ahead of yah, ma brodda. If they don’t got no more balls, I’ll be sprinkling some of my trademark funkiness over them all like a crop duster!”

“Start saying words that make sense!”

“Punch him in his stupid sunglasses!”

“Just take your chill breath strips and watch!”

Just then, the sky lit up with an army of Pokeballs raining upon the kill crazed duo like the heavens were looking to enact revenge on all the past sins they committed. All while the red and white spheres were descending onto the battlefield a maniacal monkey laugh echoed through the background like a baboon had just escaped the zoo. Once all the Pokeballs impacted against the ground, the light they released felt like one giant flash bang.

Some of the beasts that were released included, a Kyurem, Suicune, Beedrill, Dedenne, Staryu, and an Oshawott.

(Wis = 3)
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The two magnificent legendaries took to the center of the colosseum and blasted their icy storms against both of the fighters. Unfortunately, neither of the beasts seemed to be wearing their glasses and completely missed both of them and ended up freezing each other into solid masses of uselessness.

(Wis = 2)

The Staryu caught Skeith dead on with its crystalline eye and shot towards the golem like a water shuriken, but it would seem that someone forgot to dust off the creature’s gem eye since it sailed directly over the rock being. Before it could fire off any of its swift stars it crashed into the two useless ice glaciers like a dart nailing the bullseye.

(Wis = 16)

Oshawott watched, almost stunned completely by the mass stupidity of its other brethren, but quickly took focus on Black Mage, like a ninja determining its target. The tiny otter unleashed a torrent of water from underneath itself and proceeded to ram the frail magician with its constant and power stream of glorious and delicious H20.

(Str = 6)

Being the best Pokemon ever, Beedrill determined its target incredibly quickly, that being the golem that all others seemed to find incredibly impossible to hit. The creature proceeded to summon its horde of bees against the reaper like a stampede of wild boar. While it would be more difficult for the statue to dodge this group of angry bees, that wasn’t saying much considering its competition. If anything, the bugs were going to try to take the statue with them as they crashed into Staryu, Suicune, and Kyurem.

(Wis = 1, I’m done)

Dedenne got squished by gravity the moment it was released from its ball. Tragic really.

“…I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more unimpressive display of incompetence in my life. I tip myself to you, my good sir.”